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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Writing is fast becoming the lost activity in the educational process." Last week this statement by able Dean of Admissions Eugene S. Wilson of Amherst College sparked significant action at the annual meeting of the powerful College Entrance Examination Board in Manhattan. Speaking for 15 New England colleges, Dean Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: English Written Here | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Helen Baird (Shirley Booth), has an affair with Helen's son, is driven to a suicide attempt when the boy discards her. Having found "four successive hit plays in corners of the commonplace overlooked by his fellow playwrights," wrote the Washington Evening Star, "Inge goes for a fifth in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Report from the Road | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

At least some businessmen began to realize that sponsors had their share of the responsibility for the scandal. In a speech to the Sales Executives Club in Manhattan, Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc., took a roundhouse swing at his archrival, Revlon (sponsors of The $64,000 Question, co-sponsors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: People Are Wonderful | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Beyond all the charges and countercharges that rocked television, there was evidence of real concern for the corruption of a major communications medium. The Christian Science Monitor's call for a government-established network, run like the BBC by a "public corporation" and paid for by the licensing of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Prostitute of Merchandising | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

"We should not," said Columnist Lippmann, "shrink from the idea that such a network would have to be subsidized and endowed . . . Why should it not be subsidized and endowed as are the universities and the public schools and the exploration of space and modern medical research, and indeed the churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Prostitute of Merchandising | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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